VacationSelector

Munich or Porto?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Munich
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MunichPorto
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
MunichPorto
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km652
Coast distance579 km4 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 5 points.5
MunichPorto
Score7368
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2801,172
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3527
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 10 points.10
MunichPorto
Score6171
Museums within 10 km74101
Museums within 2 km of centre4857
Share of museums within 2 km %6556
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Munich leads by 9 points.9
MunichPorto
Score6758
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335900
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763570
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5763
Nightclubs within 4 km10338
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 15 points.15
MunichPorto
Score4833
Protected land share 50 km %177
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10061
Park area within 2 km199 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 14 points.14
MunichPorto
Score7965
Tourist attractions within 2 km80122
Park area within 2 km199 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 14 points.14
MunichPorto
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19685
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 14 points.14
MunichPorto
Score6074
Price level global75.955.9
Daily budget€163€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 15 points.15
MunichPorto
Score5671
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C13.8 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 mm22 mm to 181 mm
Dry months03
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichPorto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
LisbonLIS
3 h 0 m
€253-306
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureMunichPorto
Official languageGermanPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation519 m104 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichPorto
City population1,510,378231,800
People per km²4,8615,599
Museums within 10 km7442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre8970
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.